that came over his face, he dropped
it and goes, "Oh, sorry, Officer."

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And I went over,
and she was still crying.

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And I said, "Do you want
to make a report?"

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And she goes, "No."

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I remember saying this
because it was...

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..I think expressing

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my...displeasure

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that she was allowing herself
to be treated like this.

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I said, "It's your life."

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All right, let the record
reflect that

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we have been rejoined by
all members of our jury panel.

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Mr Darden, you may continue.

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Did that search warrant
authorise you

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to drill a hole in a safe
deposit box at Union Bank?

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Yes.

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-Whose safe deposit box was it?

-Nicole Brown Simpson.

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Recognise that item?

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Yes, it was in a sealed envelope

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that was contained inside
the safe deposit box.

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The strategy had been
to open the case

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with a couple weeks of
domestic violence evidence.

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Did you remove that Polaroid from
Nicole Brown's safe deposit box?

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Yes, I did.

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-Do you know who took
that photograph?

-I did.

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The swelling over her right eye -

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that isn't how
she usually looked, is it?

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No, it's not.

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We're going to present
all that evidence

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in an effort to knock Simpson

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off the iconic pedestal
on which he stood.

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And you mentioned that pictures
began flying off the walls.

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How did they come
flying off the wall?

0:03:43

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OJ was walking up the hall,
or up the staircase,

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and he started throwing them.

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He took them off the wall
and started throwing them down.

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-Did the defendant say anything?

-He wanted her out of his house,

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and he threw her up against the
wall, and the eyes got real angry.

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It wasn't as if it was OJ any more.

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0:04:04

'I was so disappointed.'

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I just had no comprehension
about it, no knowledge.

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What did the defendant say

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about your sister's weight
while she was pregnant?

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He used to call her a fat pig.

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It's like finding out your wife's
a bad person, you know?

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'911 emergency.'

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I heard a female screaming.

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0:04:37

'Hello?'

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I definitely felt for Nicole.

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And then I heard someone being hit.

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SCREAMS ON TAPE

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'You know, I looked at him,
"You're a pretty bad person."'

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He's capable of outbursts.

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SHOUTING ON TAPE

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If you have the personality that
you can physically abuse women...

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'I don't want to stay on the line.

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'He's going to beat the shit
out of me.'

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'..then, to me, you're capable
of murdering her.'

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She felt that she was
in imminent danger,

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and so we made it life...
I made it life-threatening.

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Miss Brown, directing your attention
to June 12 1994,

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had you and your parents
and your sister

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planned to go somewhere
after the recital was over?

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Yes, we did. We were
going out to dinner.

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OK. And where were you
planning to go?

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We were going to
Mezzaluna restaurant.

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The domestic violence testimony
was the "why" of it.

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-Did you invite the defendant to go
to the Mezzaluna?

-No, I did not.

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Did you hear anyone else invite the
defendant to go to the Mezzaluna?

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No, I did not.

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Abusers blame their victims
for the cycle of violence,

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and on that particular night I think
it all came to a head for him.

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And he went to the recital,
and the Mezzaluna

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date was made, he was not included,

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and then he tries to reach
Paula later that night,

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at 10.03, calling her twice,
when he was in the Bronco.

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She was not there.

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And I think that was
the last straw for him.

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He was abandoned by Nicole,
he was abandoned by Paula...

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..and that's why we're here.

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There's a connection with abuse,
and could it lead to death? Sure.

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But I don't think they proved that.

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How many times did you hear her

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shout, "He's going to kill me,
he's going to kill me"?

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Four or five times.

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Let me tell you,

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I lose respect
for any woman that take

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an ass-whupping
when she don't have to.

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Don't stay in the water...

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if it's over your head.
You'll drown.

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They did not get it.

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They just didn't care.

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They got it. I mean, you know,
it's not that complicated.

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They didn't care. So...

0:07:28

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Our hearts sank.

0:07:31

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We thought, "We are really
going to have

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"a tough time if our jurors don't
understand how this is relevant."

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-SOBBING:

-The last thing I told her
is that I loved her.

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Knowing what I believed I knew,
I still refused to testify.

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But I get a call from
Chris Darden. He said,

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"Look, I know you don't want

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"to testify, but I need you
to come down here.

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"I've got to ask you a couple
of questions. Would you, please?"

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I went, "OK."

0:08:07

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Chris is sitting there, and he goes,

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"Hey, man, how you doing?
What's going on?"

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30, 45 seconds goes by,
someone went,

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"Chris, you've got a phone call."
He goes, "Oh, Ron, be right back."

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And as I'm sitting there...
I look in front of me, you know,

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where Chris was sitting,

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I see this book, and it has
a big "Ron and Nicole" on it.

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I open it up...

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and I see these beautiful pictures
of Nicole, with her modelling.

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I keep opening it.
Nice pictures of Ron.

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And all of a sudden, I get to
the actual homicide pictures.

0:08:52

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Now, I've seen a million
homicide pictures.

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0:09:05

I've been in I don't know
how many homicides

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in my 15 years as an LAPD cop.

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But all of a sudden
you look at some pictures

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of somebody you actually know.

0:09:15

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Looked at those pictures.
It changed me.

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It changed me.

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Everybody always just
beating cops up.

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Man, there's a lot of stuff
that we see and we suppress.

0:09:35

0:09:40

I'll never forget
the first homicide that I saw.

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Oh, it was, um...

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Excuse me.

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It was a 19-year-old girl.

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POLICE RADIO CHATTER

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'We got a call.

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0:10:13

'When I went up there,
she was totally nude.

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0:10:18

'She had been beaten to a pulp and
just discarded in the parking lot.

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'I was like, "What kind
of guy would do this?"'

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She was 19 years old. I couldn't
even...I couldn't make out her face,

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because it was beaten in
so bad. Blonde hair.

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And we got a call that the guy
turned himself in.

0:10:38

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We went and picked him up.

0:10:43

0:10:46

And I sat in the back seat
with this guy.

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I wanted to kill him.

0:10:50

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I mean, all I thought about
was this is somebody's

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0:10:55

daughter, sister, whatever,
that's never coming home.

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Well, when I saw Nicole's pictures,

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0:11:01

that was the same thing.
I felt like that with OJ.

0:11:01

0:11:05

Only an animal would do
something like this

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0:11:09

to the mother of your kids.

0:11:09

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Chris came back,

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and when he sat down,
I said, "I'm testifying."

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He said, "What?"
I said, "I'm testifying."

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0:11:25

The People call Ron Shipp
to the stand. Ron?

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-To the stand, Mr Shipp.

-Raise your right hand, please.

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Do you solemnly swear
that the testimony

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you're about give will be
the truth, the whole truth

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and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?

0:11:37

0:11:39

-Yes, I do.

-Please be seated.

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'Traitor.

0:11:41

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'Judas.'

0:11:43

0:11:44

Ronald Shipp.

0:11:44

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R-O-N-A-L-D...

0:11:45

0:11:47

Becky called him Judas.

0:11:47

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And what did the defendant say?

0:11:49

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He kind of jokingly
just said, "You know,

0:11:52

0:11:54

"you know, to be honest, Shipp" -
that's what he called me, Shipp -

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he said, "I've had some dreams
of killing her."

0:11:58

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This is my one moment
to help put somebody

0:12:03

0:12:07

who's responsible for
Nicole and Ron's murder,

0:12:07

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put them in prison.

0:12:11

0:12:13

Do you and the defendant
remain friends today?

0:12:13

0:12:16

Well, I still love the guy, but...

0:12:17

0:12:19

I don't know, I mean,
this is a weird situation.

0:12:19

0:12:22

I'm sitting here...

0:12:22

0:12:23

-You say you still love him.

-Sure.

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-INTERVIEWER:

-Did he tell the truth?

-Yeah.

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'But anybody's that's credible,
what do you have to do?'

0:12:36

0:12:38

Nothing further.

0:12:38

0:12:40

'You have to destroy them.'

0:12:40

0:12:43

You drink a lot, don't you?

0:12:44

0:12:46

I used to.

0:12:46

0:12:48

You've had a drinking problem,
haven't you?

0:12:48

0:12:50

In the past I have.

0:12:50

0:12:52

They painted him out to be

0:12:52

0:12:55

an alcoholic, a womaniser.

0:12:55

0:12:58

Isn't it true, sir,
that you were with a friend

0:12:58

0:13:01

-other than your wife?

-Yes, I was.

0:13:01

0:13:03

She was blonde, was she not?

0:13:03

0:13:05

-..who was a friend of my wife's,
that's correct.

-I see.

0:13:05

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And when you were at his home,

0:13:08

0:13:12

in the dark, with the blonde

0:13:12

0:13:15

who wasn't your wife,
who's here in court,

0:13:15

0:13:17

you did ask that he bring you
a bottle of wine, didn't you?

0:13:17

0:13:21

That's correct.

0:13:21

0:13:22

They destroyed him.

0:13:22

0:13:24

You're not really this man's
friend, are you, sir?

0:13:24

0:13:27

Well, I guess you can say
I was like everybody else,

0:13:27

0:13:30

one of his servants.

0:13:30

0:13:31

I did police stuff for him
all the time. I ran licence plates.

0:13:31

0:13:34

You weren't the kind of friend
that he would share

0:13:34

0:13:38

some private secret with,
were you, sir?

0:13:38

0:13:42

Nothing except for
the 1989...beating,

0:13:42

0:13:45

where he needed me.

0:13:45

0:13:48

When they started lying
and they came

0:13:48

0:13:50

up with all these
different things...

0:13:50

0:13:52

Isn't it true, sir, that you have
told Mr Simpson's friend that

0:13:52

0:13:58

if Mr Simpson weren't around,
you might have a shot

0:13:58

0:14:01

at Nicole Brown Simpson yourself?

0:14:01

0:14:05

No, I did not.

0:14:05

0:14:07

'He looked at me with
that OJ Simpson smile.'

0:14:07

0:14:10

And, oh, I felt that hate come back.
I felt it come back.

0:14:10

0:14:14

Mr Douglas, I hope you get
your facts straight.

0:14:14

0:14:17

-Hold on, hold on.

-You're
attacking me.

-Hold on, Mr Shipp.

0:14:17

0:14:19

This is sad, OJ,
this is really sad.

0:14:19

0:14:22

Your Honour, I move to strike that.

0:14:22

0:14:25

'I was like, "This guy
deserves to rot in hell."'

0:14:25

0:14:29

I do remember
that I was told, you know,

0:14:29

0:14:33

after I did make that decision
to testify, "You're not alone."

0:14:33

0:14:37

And I saw a list. They said,
"These are the ones

0:14:37

0:14:39

"that are going to be testifying."

0:14:39

0:14:41

But after they got through with me,

0:14:42

0:14:46

everybody got amnesia.

0:14:46

0:14:48

I will not have the blood
of Nicole on Ron Shipp.

0:14:48

0:14:52

I can sleep at night,

0:14:53

0:14:55

unlike a lot of others.

0:14:55

0:14:57

Mr Shipp...

0:14:57

0:14:58

I think that was
the first person that

0:14:59

0:15:02

it became evident
that everybody's expendable...

0:15:02

0:15:08

that if the Titanic sank,
OJ was going to take

0:15:08

0:15:11

a life vest for himself
but he's going to probably

0:15:11

0:15:13

take yours, too, just in case.

0:15:13

0:15:17

He was a fighter, he was a hustler,
he was a competitor.

0:15:17

0:15:20

To survive, to get to where he was,
he had to be good, and he was.

0:15:20

0:15:26

'I was struck by
how engaged he was.'

0:15:26

0:15:29

..that when we were
in court that day...

0:15:29

0:15:32

..you'll recall... Usually
I'm sitting next to him when we

0:15:33

0:15:36

talk about that,
you know what I mean?

0:15:36

0:15:38

In a lot of cases, the defendant
is really sort of incidental.

0:15:38

0:15:41

You really have the sense that
it's legal team versus legal team,

0:15:41

0:15:45

whereas I did have the sense
that he was

0:15:45

0:15:47

a significant player
within his own team.

0:15:47

0:15:50

OJ was brilliant in terms of
how things played.

0:15:52

0:15:57

You say that the conversation
with Mr Simpson was eating you up.

0:15:57

0:16:00

-Is that your statement?

-That's correct.

0:16:00

0:16:03

And did you hope to exorcise
this pain from your body?

0:16:03

0:16:08

'He would give me
more than a few tongue lashings

0:16:08

0:16:12

'to make sure
that I would communicate

0:16:12

0:16:14

'in a way that would convey

0:16:14

0:16:16

'the image that he thought
would be best.'

0:16:16

0:16:19

I remember I had
some spittle on my mouth.

0:16:19

0:16:23

And he said, "Wipe your mouth!
Wipe the spit off your mouth!"

0:16:23

0:16:26

He took me to the woodshed.

0:16:26

0:16:29

But I was 39 years old,

0:16:30

0:16:34

working on behalf of OJ Simpson
and on television.

0:16:34

0:16:37

I'm living the life
of all my colleagues would dream.

0:16:38

0:16:41

So, if I had to eat a little cheese

0:16:41

0:16:46

while being on TV, that was
a small price for me to pay.

0:16:46

0:16:51

What was remarkable about him was
his ability to turn on the charisma.

0:16:51

0:16:54

Like that. In a moment,
he could smile.

0:16:54

0:16:58

He knew when the camera
was on him in that courtroom,

0:16:58

0:17:01

and he would have
a really benign expression.

0:17:01

0:17:04

And when the camera moved away
from him, the face fell.

0:17:04

0:17:09

Everything that happened
in that courtroom was by design -

0:17:09

0:17:14

who sat where, what colours
they wore, what ties they wore.

0:17:14

0:17:19

Some days, it would be
very irritating

0:17:19

0:17:21

to see the games the defence
was playing

0:17:21

0:17:23

when they would put on
those ties, that Kente cloth.

0:17:23

0:17:28

Stop it.

0:17:28

0:17:30

He's communicating to the jury.

0:17:30

0:17:33

I know Johnnie well enough.
I know how he works.

0:17:33

0:17:36

Now the prosecution, Miss Clark.
They're insulting you.

0:17:36

0:17:40

They are insulting the intelligence
and the credibility of this jury

0:17:40

0:17:43

when they implied
that we are in some way

0:17:43

0:17:45

trying to manipulate
a predominantly black jury

0:17:45

0:17:48

by my wearing
this African tribal tie.

0:17:48

0:17:50

LAUGHTER

0:17:50

0:17:52

That's an insult to this jury,
and I am personally offended,

0:17:52

0:17:55

not only on my behalf,
but also on the behalf

0:17:55

0:17:57

of my esteemed colleagues.

0:17:57

0:17:59

Mr Shapiro...

0:17:59

0:18:01

Mr Bailey...

0:18:01

0:18:03

..and Mr Scheck.

0:18:04

0:18:06

I had spent a lot of time thinking
about cameras in the courtroom.

0:18:08

0:18:11

The camera is going to be
out to about here.

0:18:11

0:18:13

It was supposed to be
something that would

0:18:13

0:18:15

really elevate the country's
understanding

0:18:15

0:18:19

of the American legal system.

0:18:19

0:18:20

Having the cameras in the courtroom

0:18:20

0:18:23

allows everyone to see
how a trial really proceeds,

0:18:23

0:18:25

so then they see the actual
evidence as it's being

0:18:25

0:18:27

brought out,
and that's a good thing.

0:18:27

0:18:30

But that's not what happened.

0:18:30

0:18:33

There was no internet. There was
no MSNBC. There was no Fox.

0:18:34

0:18:39

There was one cable news network,

0:18:39

0:18:41

and CNN covered the case
gavel to gavel.

0:18:41

0:18:45

This case was everywhere.

0:18:45

0:18:48

The Simpson trial, by any standard,
is a very, very big news story.

0:18:48

0:18:52

-In this country, the OJ Simpson...

-At the OJ Simpson trial today....

0:18:52

0:18:55

There are some big decisions
to report in the OJ...

0:18:55

0:18:57

More on the OJ Simpson story
tonight on Nightline

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and tomorrow night on 20/20.

0:19:00

0:19:02

I think before OJ,
what was the biggest story?

0:19:02

0:19:05

The Lindbergh kidnapping.

0:19:05

0:19:07

I can't think of one bigger than OJ
where celebrity drove the story.

0:19:08

0:19:14

On the 3 Network Newscast,

0:19:14

0:19:15

the Simpson story
has been given more time

0:19:15

0:19:18

in two months
than any other topic this year.

0:19:18

0:19:22

There is a ravenous
public appetite for this,

0:19:22

0:19:24

and the fact of the matter is
it is one whale of a good story.

0:19:24

0:19:28

OJ's celebrity status
clearly made it a big-time story.

0:19:28

0:19:32

But I think the fact
that you had the interracial

0:19:32

0:19:36

angle there kind of juiced it
and I think it had

0:19:36

0:19:38

a little extra pizzazz.

0:19:38

0:19:42

Here is a black man, in America, who
is accused of killing a white woman.

0:19:42

0:19:47

Black hero killing white woman.

0:19:47

0:19:50

Black men killing white women,
now that happens.

0:19:50

0:19:53

Nobody cares.

0:19:53

0:19:55

But black American hero
killing white woman

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0:20:00

was a giant thing.

0:20:00

0:20:02

It was branded as
the trial of the century,

0:20:05

0:20:09

and my mother said,
"If OJ had killed Marguerite,

0:20:09

0:20:12

"this would not be
the trial of the century

0:20:12

0:20:14

"and his black ass
would be in jail."

0:20:14

0:20:16

The Simpson case never felt
like a real murder case.

0:20:20

0:20:25

It felt like a media circus.

0:20:25

0:20:27

I would walk out the door,
and there would be

0:20:31

0:20:33

the press standing right there
with microphones

0:20:33

0:20:35

and cameras, and I'm wearing
a white dress,

0:20:35

0:20:37

and the press is holding
microphones in my face

0:20:37

0:20:40

and saying, "What's the significance
of the white dress?"

0:20:40

0:20:43

You know, it was clean.

0:20:43

0:20:45

'There was a certain amount of
denial I was living in

0:20:48

0:20:51

'in terms of how much attention
I would get at any given point.'

0:20:51

0:20:58

As you can see, Clark is smack dab
in the middle of a national debate,

0:20:58

0:21:02

and it has nothing whatsoever
to do with the OJ Simpson trial.

0:21:02

0:21:05

Here's more on the story
from Judy Muller.

0:21:05

0:21:09

I really hated it.

0:21:09

0:21:10

The coverage of it became, you know,
real infotainment.

0:21:10

0:21:13

OJ girlfriend in Playboy.
OJ girlfriend before Grand Jury.

0:21:13

0:21:17

OJ Defence Tip Hotline unplugged.

0:21:17

0:21:20

OJ houseboy's girlfriend
holds news conference.

0:21:20

0:21:23

The OJ stories are everywhere.
So is the ET coverage.

0:21:23

0:21:28

Our job is to tell people
what happened today

0:21:28

0:21:30

and what was important.

0:21:30

0:21:32

We have lost sight of
giving people the news

0:21:32

0:21:36

in terms of its significance.

0:21:36

0:21:38

We're giving it to them
in terms of what we think simply

0:21:38

0:21:40

is the most titillating
and the most ratings-grabbing.

0:21:40

0:21:46

You think he'd be there for you
the way you were there for him?

0:21:46

0:21:48

The celibacy thing
I don't know about.

0:21:48

0:21:52

There was so much hand-wringing
at TV networks

0:21:52

0:21:55

and at the New York Times.

0:21:55

0:21:56

One editor at the Times
was quoted as saying,

0:21:56

0:21:58

"Now I find myself
reading the Enquirer

0:21:58

0:22:01

"every week and chasing leads
out of it."

0:22:01

0:22:04

I think we have to ask at what point

0:22:04

0:22:07

do what should be
journalistic decisions

0:22:07

0:22:09

become marketing decisions.

0:22:09

0:22:12

I think a lot of the elitism
went out of the mainstream

0:22:12

0:22:14

media at that point.

0:22:14

0:22:16

And they're like, "Well,
if this is what people want,

0:22:16

0:22:19

"this is what we're
going to give them."

0:22:19

0:22:21

Tonight, the woman who calls herself

0:22:21

0:22:23

Nicole Brown Simpson's
best friend, Faye Resnick.

0:22:23

0:22:27

If Nicole was caught talking to
the gas station attendant,

0:22:27

0:22:31

he would make it seem as if
she was having an affair with him.

0:22:31

0:22:35

The cameras in the courtroom,
I think,

0:22:35

0:22:37

gave too much notoriety
to the witnesses.

0:22:37

0:22:40

-I heard a thumping noise.

-How many thumps did you hear?

0:22:40

0:22:43

Three.

0:22:43

0:22:45

If someone points him out
and says, "There's Kato Kaelin,"

0:22:46

0:22:49

I'll say, "Oh, yeah," and I'll gawk
like everybody else.

0:22:49

0:22:53

The same can be said for
all the attendants in the courtroom.

0:22:53

0:22:58

Judge Ito!

0:22:58

0:23:00

I mean, I remember one day
I saw Marcia and she said

0:23:00

0:23:03

Larry King was in chambers
with Judge Ito.

0:23:03

0:23:07

Did you talk about him
possibly appearing on your show?

0:23:10

0:23:13

They made everyone celebrities.

0:23:18

0:23:20

I understood money and attorneys,

0:23:28

0:23:30

reputation and celebrity.
And who am I?

0:23:30

0:23:34

I'm a nobody.

0:23:34

0:23:36

I am nobody.

0:23:38

0:23:40

I began to get some insight
into Fuhrman...

0:23:47

0:23:50

..and I said,
"There's the jugular vein.

0:23:52

0:23:54

"All we have to do is cut that

0:23:56

0:23:58

"and there's nothing left
of consequence."

0:23:58

0:24:01

'He was going to be their fall guy.
We all knew it.'

0:24:02

0:24:06

They were going to go after him
any way they could.

0:24:06

0:24:10

We heard from a guy that Fuhrman
wanted a job in South Africa.

0:24:10

0:24:14

He wanted to be in a force
where you could

0:24:15

0:24:17

shoot niggers and not
get accused of anything.

0:24:17

0:24:21

Another witness said
Fuhrman had pulled her over,

0:24:24

0:24:27

and when he did, a Corvette
went by with a black

0:24:27

0:24:30

guy driving
and a nice-looking white girl.

0:24:30

0:24:33

And Fuhrman spewed out
a line of epithets

0:24:33

0:24:37

about how unconstitutional it was,

0:24:37

0:24:40

for this guy to be running around
with a white woman.

0:24:40

0:24:43

These stories were hair-raising.

0:24:45

0:24:48

These allegations get
more outrageous by the minute.

0:24:50

0:24:52

And I'm stricken again
by the preposterousness

0:24:52

0:24:55

of the claims of the defence.

0:24:55

0:24:57

The People respectfully
submit to the court

0:24:57

0:24:59

that what we have here is not
a defence, it's a smear campaign.

0:24:59

0:25:02

We made him a central part,

0:25:02

0:25:05

consistent with the themes
that he's the bogeyman.

0:25:05

0:25:09

Who is Mark Fuhrman,
and what was he like?

0:25:11

0:25:15

I got a bunch of calls
from black police officers

0:25:15

0:25:17

who said, "Fuhrman is
absolutely not a racist."

0:25:17

0:25:21

His former commanding officer,
who happens

0:25:21

0:25:23

to be black, told me
that he was one of those

0:25:23

0:25:28

people who made the most remarkable

0:25:28

0:25:30

turnaround and became
such an exceptional

0:25:30

0:25:32

detective and was
really a good guy.

0:25:32

0:25:36

Joining us now is the former chief

0:25:37

0:25:39

of the Los Angeles Police
Department, Daryl Gates.

0:25:39

0:25:41

We knew that the police
department would take

0:25:44

0:25:47

a very defensive posture.

0:25:47

0:25:50

I think the record supports the fact
that Mark was a good police officer,

0:25:50

0:25:54

that he was a nice young man.

0:25:54

0:25:56

"He was not a racist,
he was this and that,"

0:25:56

0:25:58

the better he played to us.

0:25:58

0:26:01

You cannot take the words
of a defence team as the gospel

0:26:01

0:26:04

in the city of Los Angeles.

0:26:04

0:26:06

There was one glove
found at the crime scene.

0:26:12

0:26:14

Its match was found at his house,

0:26:14

0:26:17

bearing the blood and hair and fibre
from Ron and Nicole.

0:26:17

0:26:21

How does it get
more incriminating than that?

0:26:21

0:26:25

And that's why the defence knew
they had to knock out that glove.

0:26:25

0:26:29

I had to go.

0:26:29

0:26:31

One way or another.

0:26:31

0:26:32

A truck hitting me.
They would have done

0:26:32

0:26:36

whatever it took to get rid of me.

0:26:36

0:26:39

None of them thought
that I planted that glove.

0:26:41

0:26:45

But they wanted
the question to loom.

0:26:45

0:26:48

I am convinced
that glove was placed there.

0:26:50

0:26:53

We call that framing a guilty man.

0:26:53

0:26:56

I mean, look, cops plant guns.
Why do you think they plant guns?

0:26:57

0:27:01

They don't plant a gun
on somebody who they

0:27:01

0:27:03

perceive as innocent,
they plant guns on somebody

0:27:03

0:27:05

who they think is a dirt bag,
and they had maybe

0:27:05

0:27:09

a questionable shooting,
so they needed to place

0:27:09

0:27:12

the other gun in order to
justify their shootings.

0:27:12

0:27:16

Mark Fuhrman picked
the glove up at the scene,

0:27:28

0:27:32

put it in a baggie,
and carried it with him

0:27:32

0:27:34

until he had a chance,
with no witnesses, to plant it.

0:27:34

0:27:39

Do you realise
how ignorant he sounds?

0:27:41

0:27:44

You have a man
that's a famous attorney,

0:27:44

0:27:48

that has made up
everything without a shred

0:27:48

0:27:51

of evidence, and then
you have people

0:27:51

0:27:54

hook, line and sinker go, "Yeah."

0:27:54

0:27:57

I do not for one second believe

0:27:57

0:28:00

there was any sort of
conspiracy here.

0:28:00

0:28:02

15 people were at the scene
before Fuhrman got there

0:28:02

0:28:04

and viewed the left-handed glove.

0:28:04

0:28:06

The right glove was found
behind the bungalow

0:28:06

0:28:09

when he ran into the air conditioner
and dropped it.

0:28:09

0:28:12

Fuhrman would have been
willing to sacrifice

0:28:12

0:28:15

his career and be convicted
of a felony

0:28:15

0:28:19

when he didn't know who did it.

0:28:19

0:28:21

And on top of it, there's
absolutely no motivation

0:28:21

0:28:24

for anyone to want to do this.

0:28:24

0:28:27

OJ had sinned...

0:28:28

0:28:31

having a consort, let alone a wife,

0:28:31

0:28:35

of white race.

0:28:35

0:28:37

It was a capital offence
in Fuhrman's mind.

0:28:37

0:28:40

So that would justify to him
whatever he did.

0:28:40

0:28:44

And he had come to OJ's house
when Nicole complained to police,

0:28:45

0:28:50

as she often did, that OJ
was going to beat her up.

0:28:50

0:28:54

When Fuhrman got there,
they sent him home.

0:28:54

0:28:58

No complaint.

0:28:58

0:28:59

I think Mark Fuhrman dwelled on it
and was inspired by it.

0:29:01

0:29:07

The People call
Detective Mark Fuhrman.

0:29:07

0:29:10

Detective Fuhrman, can you tell us
how you feel about testifying today?

0:29:13

0:29:17

Nervous.

0:29:17

0:29:19

Reluctant.

0:29:19

0:29:21

Can you tell us why?

0:29:21

0:29:22

Since June 13th, it seems that
I've seen a lot of the evidence

0:29:22

0:29:29

ignored and a lot of personal issues
come to the forefront.

0:29:29

0:29:33

'If I don't put him on,
I basically can't

0:29:35

0:29:37

'put the glove into evidence.'

0:29:37

0:29:39

And if I don't do that,
it looks like an admission

0:29:39

0:29:41

that it was planted.

0:29:41

0:29:43

So I had no choice.

0:29:43

0:29:45

What did you do next?

0:29:45

0:29:47

I asked Mr Kaelin if anything
unusual happened last night.

0:29:47

0:29:50

He said he heard a crash
or a thump on his wall.

0:29:50

0:29:53

He thought there was going to be an
earthquake, and his pictures shook.

0:29:53

0:29:56

'He looks confident, he's tall,
he's nice-looking, has nice hair.'

0:29:58

0:30:01

He came off as a nice guy
to the jury.

0:30:02

0:30:05

I walked out of the driveway,
and I started walking

0:30:05

0:30:08

in the direction
going back towards Kaelin's room.

0:30:08

0:30:10

'They had no reason to doubt him.'

0:30:10

0:30:12

I continued walking down the path

0:30:12

0:30:14

and saw what now I identified
as a possible glove.

0:30:14

0:30:20

If he were telling the truth,
that would condemn OJ.

0:30:21

0:30:27

Thank you, sir,
I have nothing further.

0:30:27

0:30:29

Early, early, early on,

0:30:30

0:30:33

Fuhrman had been a witness

0:30:33

0:30:36

that Lee staked out
and he wanted to take.

0:30:36

0:30:41

I thought it required
to dismantle this guy,

0:30:41

0:30:45

as he should be dismantled,

0:30:45

0:30:47

the work of somebody with a lot
of cross-examination experience.

0:30:47

0:30:52

I was the only one on the
defence team that fit that bill.

0:30:52

0:30:55

He's one of my heroes. F Lee Bailey.

0:30:58

0:31:01

Mr Bailey, what do you think

0:31:01

0:31:02

Sam Sheppard's chances are
of going free?

0:31:02

0:31:04

Sam is free, and he's going to stay

0:31:04

0:31:06

that way and the odds
are astronomical.

0:31:06

0:31:09

F Lee Bailey was one of

0:31:09

0:31:11

the great criminal advocates
of his time, for sure.

0:31:11

0:31:16

He pioneered a lot of, you know,
great techniques

0:31:16

0:31:19

as a criminal defence lawyer.

0:31:19

0:31:21

As far as I'm concerned
right now, Lee Bailey

0:31:21

0:31:23

is the doctor, he's the surgeon,

0:31:23

0:31:26

and I do what he tells me.

0:31:26

0:31:28

'He was obviously
a man of great ability.'

0:31:30

0:31:33

Detective Fuhrman,
you went out there

0:31:36

0:31:39

in the alley, where
you've never been before.

0:31:39

0:31:42

-Yes, I went that pathway.

-You
walked there by yourself, correct?

0:31:42

0:31:46

-Yes.

-You had three detectives,
who were armed,

0:31:46

0:31:49

in the house
and didn't tell any of them

0:31:49

0:31:52

where you were going, correct?

0:31:52

0:31:54

That's correct.

0:31:54

0:31:55

'The purpose of
a cross-examination is to peel

0:31:57

0:32:00

'back the witness's outer skin

0:32:00

0:32:03

'and let the jury see
what's underneath.'

0:32:03

0:32:06

If it's a saint,
you're going to get buried,

0:32:06

0:32:09

but if it's a Fuhrman,
you'll be making money

0:32:09

0:32:11

every minute of the day.

0:32:11

0:32:13

Didn't it seem strange to you
that after seven and a half hours

0:32:13

0:32:19

that glove still showed moist,
sticky blood, Detective Fuhrman?

0:32:19

0:32:24

No, I knew nothing at that time when
it was deposited or left there.

0:32:24

0:32:27

That's seven and a half hours.

0:32:27

0:32:29

That's enough for blood to dry,
isn't it?

0:32:29

0:32:31

Under certain conditions,
yes, I'm sure it would be.

0:32:34

0:32:36

Unless it's encased in plastic

0:32:36

0:32:40

or rubber and evaporation
is stopped.

0:32:40

0:32:43

Wouldn't you agree?

0:32:43

0:32:44

No.

0:32:45

0:32:47

I thought Mark Fuhrman told
the truth about what happened.

0:32:48

0:32:53

But F Lee Bailey,
in his brief star turn,

0:32:53

0:32:59

knew how to pin him down.

0:32:59

0:33:01

Detective Fuhrman, when you said

0:33:01

0:33:03

earlier that you were
concerned about matters

0:33:03

0:33:05

that you viewed as irrelevant,

0:33:05

0:33:07

that was about certain language
that some find offensive.

0:33:07

0:33:11

Yes.

0:33:11

0:33:12

OK.

0:33:12

0:33:14

I tried to put
my best demeanour forward

0:33:15

0:33:18

and as professional as I could,
but it was pure survival mode.

0:33:18

0:33:24

Do you use the word "nigger"
in describing people?

0:33:24

0:33:27

No, sir.

0:33:27

0:33:29

Have you used that word
in the past ten years?

0:33:29

0:33:33

Not that I recall, no.

0:33:33

0:33:35

You mean if you called someone
a nigger, you have forgotten it?

0:33:35

0:33:39

I'm not sure I can answer that
the way you phrased it, sir.

0:33:42

0:33:46

I had a dozen witnesses
that would bury him as a racist,

0:33:46

0:33:51

so I wanted him to lie.

0:33:51

0:33:53

You have difficulty
understanding the question.

0:33:53

0:33:56

-I'll rephrase it.

-Yes.

0:33:56

0:33:58

I want you to assume
that perhaps at some time,

0:33:58

0:34:01

since 1985 or '6,
you addressed a member

0:34:01

0:34:05

of the African American race
as a nigger.

0:34:05

0:34:09

Is it possible that you have
forgotten that act on your part?

0:34:09

0:34:13

No, it's not possible.

0:34:13

0:34:14

No, I didn't. Yes, I did.
Which one's right?

0:34:14

0:34:18

One you're lying,
one you're a racist.

0:34:18

0:34:20

I whacked him with it
really hard. In the face.

0:34:20

0:34:24

And you say on your oath
that you have not addressed

0:34:24

0:34:27

any black person as a nigger
or spoken about black

0:34:27

0:34:30

people as niggers in the past
ten years, Detective Fuhrman?

0:34:30

0:34:34

That's what I'm saying, sir.

0:34:34

0:34:35

So anyone who comes to this court
and quotes you as using that word

0:34:35

0:34:40

in dealing with African Americans

0:34:40

0:34:42

would be a liar, would they not,
Detective Fuhrman?

0:34:42

0:34:44

-Yes, they would.

-All of them.
Correct?

-All of them.

0:34:44

0:34:47

I didn't use that word to people

0:34:47

0:34:50

face-to-face - suspect, police.

0:34:50

0:34:53

Had I ever used the word?

0:34:55

0:34:58

Well, obviously, yes.

0:34:58

0:34:59

That's all I have, Your Honour.

0:34:59

0:35:02

-All right, thank you very much.
You're excused, sir.

-Thank you.

0:35:02

0:35:06

Once Judge Ito allowed
race into this trial,

0:35:06

0:35:10

there was no escaping
anything for me.

0:35:10

0:35:15

'I had a visceral reaction
to Fuhrman's testimony.'

0:35:18

0:35:22

It just didn't seem credible.

0:35:22

0:35:27

Another cop, white cop.

0:35:27

0:35:30

Prejudice, bias.

0:35:30

0:35:31

Watch out.

0:35:31

0:35:34

The way you work around
something like that

0:35:36

0:35:38

is to deal with the physical,
objective evidence that we had.

0:35:38

0:35:43

This was a case about blood.

0:35:48

0:35:51

That was the heart of the case.

0:35:51

0:35:53

Simpson had cuts on his left hand,
particularly on the middle knuckle.

0:35:55

0:36:00

-How did you get the injury
on your hand?

-I don't know.

0:36:00

0:36:03

To the left-hand side of the bloody

0:36:03

0:36:06

shoe prints, walking away,
there were five blood drops found.

0:36:06

0:36:11

Those blood drops were tested

0:36:13

0:36:15

through different DNA analyses
and by different labs,

0:36:15

0:36:19

and it came back to Simpson.

0:36:19

0:36:21

Quite simply,
that was Simpson's blood.

0:36:23

0:36:25

Inside the Bronco
we have Nicole's blood,

0:36:27

0:36:30

we have Ron's blood smeared inside
there, and we have OJ's blood.

0:36:30

0:36:34

2.1 miles away from
the Bundy crime scene,

0:36:37

0:36:40

we've got blood drops
in the driveway,

0:36:40

0:36:43

blood drops inside the house.

0:36:43

0:36:46

The best thing about
scientific evidence

0:36:47

0:36:50

is that it's objective,
it doesn't have biases

0:36:50

0:36:53

or prejudices. That's why
we concentrated so much on DNA.

0:36:53

0:36:58

We went to two labs.
First time ever that's been done.

0:36:58

0:37:01

We gave them sample after sample.

0:37:01

0:37:04

We gave the opportunity to prove
that it wasn't OJ Simpson.

0:37:04

0:37:09

I could have been
the biggest hero, perhaps

0:37:09

0:37:12

in Los Angeles, if not
the country, if I could

0:37:12

0:37:15

have walked into court
a week after he'd

0:37:15

0:37:16

been arrested, and said,
"Guess what. It's not OJ Simpson."

0:37:16

0:37:20

But all the DNA evidence
points to Mr Simpson

0:37:20

0:37:24

as being the person who committed
those horrible crimes.

0:37:24

0:37:27

I think a lot of people
stayed supportive up until the DNA.

0:37:49

0:37:54

I was 99.9% sure he was
the killer right then.

0:37:56

0:38:01

As the results were coming in,
Mr Simpson was saying,

0:38:03

0:38:06

"Look, you know, I can't explain it,
but it's not true."

0:38:06

0:38:10

There were six lawyers in court,

0:38:12

0:38:14

sometimes seven, nine
behind the scenes.

0:38:14

0:38:17

There were two lawyers,
Barry and Johnnie.

0:38:17

0:38:22

Barry did the science
and Johnnie did everything else.

0:38:22

0:38:27

And even Barry did everything else.

0:38:27

0:38:29

He had a single-minded
focus and purpose,

0:38:29

0:38:33

and he emerged
over the course of the trial

0:38:33

0:38:38

as second chair in the case.

0:38:38

0:38:41

-Good morning, Mr Fung.
How are you, sir?

-Morning.

0:38:41

0:38:43

My favourite lawyer
was Barry Scheck.

0:38:45

0:38:48

He was the most colourful.
I thought he was brilliant.

0:38:48

0:38:52

Why don't we talk about
the envelope for a minute?

0:38:52

0:38:55

There was a key piece of evidence,

0:38:55

0:38:57

which was the envelope that Ronald
Goldman was bringing back to Nicole,

0:38:57

0:39:02

and there was some foot impressions
in blood on the envelope.

0:39:02

0:39:07

Mr Fung, when you are
collecting an item

0:39:07

0:39:12

which could contain fingerprints,

0:39:12

0:39:16

you would not touch that item
with your bare hand, would you?

0:39:16

0:39:19

I would try not to.

0:39:19

0:39:20

Well, you say you try not to.
It would be wrong to do that,

0:39:20

0:39:24

-wouldn't it?

-Yes.

0:39:24

0:39:27

We had looked at hours
and hours and hours

0:39:27

0:39:29

of news footage of
Mr Fung and Miss Mazzola

0:39:29

0:39:33

picking up items of evidence
at the crime scene.

0:39:33

0:39:37

Did you touch that envelope
with your bare hands

0:39:37

0:39:40

while collecting it, Mr Fung?

0:39:40

0:39:42

No.

0:39:43

0:39:44

Sure of that?

0:39:46

0:39:47

Yes.

0:39:47

0:39:49

I'd like to show you
this piece of videotape, Mr Fung.

0:39:49

0:39:51

There. There.

0:40:02

0:40:04

How about that, Mr Fung?

0:40:04

0:40:06

-Is that a question, Mr Scheck?

-Yes.
How about that picture, Mr Fung?

0:40:08

0:40:12

Does that refresh your recollection

0:40:12

0:40:14

that you took the envelope from
Andrea Mazzola with your bare hand?

0:40:14

0:40:19

It could be anything.

0:40:19

0:40:20

They called it a Perry Mason moment.
It was just a good impeachment

0:40:22

0:40:26

of the witness,
but in some ways it really

0:40:26

0:40:28

encapsulated the problem
that they'd used

0:40:28

0:40:31

terrible methods
in terms of gathering

0:40:31

0:40:33

this evidence and potentially
cross-contaminating

0:40:33

0:40:37

it and destroying it, it was
very precious crime scene evidence.

0:40:37

0:40:40

I found that the specimen
handling procedures

0:40:40

0:40:42

were done in such a manner
that there's

0:40:42

0:40:46

a tremendous risk of the potential
of cross contamination.

0:40:46

0:40:49

Something we'd never do unless you
absolutely have to is cover a body,

0:40:51

0:40:54

because of contamination.

0:40:54

0:40:56

A sheet was over the body.
You recall seeing that?

0:40:58

0:41:00

I believe it was a blanket, yes.

0:41:00

0:41:02

Do you know where
that blanket came from?

0:41:02

0:41:05

I believe the inside of the house.

0:41:05

0:41:07

And can you tell us,
Detective, who took this

0:41:07

0:41:09

blanket out and put it
over the body? Who did that?

0:41:09

0:41:11

I did.

0:41:11

0:41:13

We have to make some decisions
to protect the evidence.

0:41:14

0:41:17

Cameras were looking right down

0:41:17

0:41:19

on the crime scene,
all the evidence, the bodies.

0:41:19

0:41:22

As a general principle,
as a criminalist,

0:41:23

0:41:26

you try at all costs
to avoid taking an object

0:41:26

0:41:31

that could have lots of
hairs and fibres on it

0:41:31

0:41:33

and putting it right into the middle
of a crime scene, don't you?

0:41:33

0:41:38

-That's correct.

-That's a terrible mistake

0:41:38

0:41:40

from the point of view of
a criminalist, isn't it?

0:41:40

0:41:43

Yes.

0:41:44

0:41:46

Over the past few days,
the defence has chipped

0:41:46

0:41:49

away at the growing presumption
of OJ Simpson's guilt.

0:41:49

0:41:53

The way evidence was collected,
processed, stored

0:41:53

0:41:56

gave rise to reasonable
question as to whether

0:41:56

0:41:59

something wrong could have happened.

0:41:59

0:42:00

You did not change gloves

0:42:00

0:42:02

between the collection
of each sample, did you?

0:42:02

0:42:06

Not that I can recall, no.

0:42:06

0:42:08

Dennis Fung was
a definite weak link.

0:42:08

0:42:11

This kid, he tries, OK?
They ripped him up terribly.

0:42:11

0:42:15

On July 3rd, you saw blood
on the gate

0:42:15

0:42:20

that you collected.

0:42:20

0:42:23

Yes.

0:42:23

0:42:25

Let's look back at the picture
of the gate on June 13th.

0:42:25

0:42:29

Where is it, Mr Fung?

0:42:33

0:42:35

I can't see it in the pic...
photograph.

0:42:40

0:42:43

'We don't know what happened
to that blood.'

0:42:43

0:42:45

All I know is while I was listening,

0:42:45

0:42:48

they were saying
they took a picture where

0:42:48

0:42:50

there was no blood on the back gate

0:42:50

0:42:53

and then, a month later,
there was some blood.

0:42:53

0:42:56

Why it didn't get picked up,
why it didn't

0:42:59

0:43:01

get collected, difficult to explain.

0:43:01

0:43:04

In the fog of war,
people on the scene

0:43:04

0:43:07

and all the activity
going on around it,

0:43:07

0:43:11

things get missed.

0:43:11

0:43:13

It is my opinion that...that
the bloodstain contained EDTA.

0:43:15

0:43:20

EDTA is a preservative
that was added

0:43:20

0:43:22

to the blood samples
taken from Simpson

0:43:22

0:43:24

and the victims,
and if EDTA is present

0:43:24

0:43:27

on the evidence, the defence says
the blood may have been planted.

0:43:27

0:43:32

In your blood right now
there is a low level

0:43:32

0:43:34

of EDTA, because it's
in everything you eat,

0:43:34

0:43:36

it's in your laundry detergent,
it's everywhere.

0:43:36

0:43:38

You're going to find EDTA
no matter what you do.

0:43:38

0:43:42

But the defence
is trying to insinuate that

0:43:42

0:43:44

somebody took the blood
that had been drawn

0:43:44

0:43:46

from Simpson's arm
and took that test tube

0:43:46

0:43:48

and sprinkled it
all over the crime scene.

0:43:48

0:43:51

And it's ridiculous.

0:43:51

0:43:52

When you took OJ's blood sample,

0:43:53

0:43:57

you were at a place
called Parker Center?

0:43:57

0:44:00

-Yes, sir.

-What type of security
did you use for that blood vial?

0:44:00

0:44:05

I placed it in a manila envelope,

0:44:05

0:44:08

maintained control of it and hand-
delivered it to the criminalist.

0:44:08

0:44:12

Where was the criminalist?

0:44:12

0:44:14

At Rockingham.

0:44:14

0:44:16

You're bringing the suspect's blood

0:44:16

0:44:19

back to a crime scene
where we're collecting blood?

0:44:19

0:44:23

Really?

0:44:23

0:44:25

How many times have you taken blood

0:44:25

0:44:28

from Parker Center
out to a crime scene?

0:44:28

0:44:31

I don't know. This may have been
the first time. I don't know.

0:44:41

0:44:45

I can't recall right now any other
times that I've done that.

0:44:45

0:44:48

If you're a juror who has
grown up in Los Angeles

0:44:51

0:44:53

and spent your life
hearing that the LAPD

0:44:53

0:44:55

is capable of doing
anything to a black person

0:44:55

0:44:58

and you hear that, you've
just been handed some doubt.

0:44:58

0:45:03

When did we start
carrying blood in our pocket?

0:45:03

0:45:06

When did our SID lab
stop wearing gloves?

0:45:06

0:45:09

When did we not book stuff
in a timely fashion?

0:45:09

0:45:14

That... There's no
rationale for that.

0:45:14

0:45:16

We had, I think, a pretty good
demonstrative of a black box.

0:45:16

0:45:20

'The idea was that
certain crime-scene evidence

0:45:20

0:45:23

'came in and the black box
was the LAPD

0:45:23

0:45:26

'and the way they handled
the evidence,

0:45:26

0:45:28

'and on the other side
were all the results

0:45:28

0:45:30

'from Cellmark, the FBI,
the DNA laboratories.

0:45:30

0:45:33

'It was pretty simple
when you broke it down.'

0:45:33

0:45:35

Garbage in, garbage out.

0:45:35

0:45:37

I mean, you cannot go back and say,

0:45:37

0:45:39

"Well, maybe they planted
evidence on the glove,

0:45:39

0:45:41

"maybe on the back gate. Oh,
there's blood missing. Big deal."

0:45:41

0:45:45

How can that be a big deal?

0:45:45

0:45:47

Scheck was very disingenuous.

0:45:47

0:45:50

I mean, EDTA, missing blood,
coincidence?

0:45:50

0:45:55

Corroboration.

0:45:55

0:45:56

Something is terribly wrong.

0:45:56

0:45:58

It was absolute nonsense.

0:45:58

0:46:01

-INTERVIEWER:

-You believe that
that blood was planted by the LAPD?

0:46:01

0:46:04

You know, it's not my job
to believe or not believe.

0:46:04

0:46:09

Could the police officers
in Los Angeles

0:46:09

0:46:13

have planted evidence
against Mr Simpson

0:46:13

0:46:15

in this case to improve
their chances of winning?

0:46:15

0:46:20

You know, there was
certainly good evidence

0:46:20

0:46:23

to support that hypothesis.

0:46:23

0:46:25

-MARCIA CLARK:

-Barry Scheck
really was an expert.

0:46:26

0:46:29

Can you remember the whole business

0:46:29

0:46:31

about development length
and the notion of controls failing?

0:46:31

0:46:35

He knew that so much of
what he was trying to show

0:46:35

0:46:37

with these witnesses
was just garbage.

0:46:37

0:46:40

Mr Yamauchi opened up
the reference tube

0:46:40

0:46:42

in the morning
and spilled out the blood.

0:46:42

0:46:45

It was unethical.

0:46:45

0:46:46

He argued things
he knew were not true,

0:46:46

0:46:49

he knew could not be true.

0:46:49

0:46:50

The most likely
and probable inference

0:46:50

0:46:53

is the one that is not for
the timid or the faint of heart.

0:46:53

0:46:57

Somebody played with this evidence!

0:46:57

0:47:01

And there's no doubt about it.

0:47:01

0:47:02

Just so I'm clear,

0:47:04

0:47:06

you believe that all the
blood evidence in the case...

0:47:06

0:47:09

You know, you're asking me
this question, do I believe...

0:47:09

0:47:12

Think, you know, is not...

0:47:12

0:47:16

the... Because you're...

0:47:16

0:47:19

The... As you know from
meticulously researching

0:47:21

0:47:26

this case, and this has been
written about,

0:47:26

0:47:28

we presented, you know,
sound arguments

0:47:28

0:47:33

and evidence to explain
each piece of this evidence

0:47:33

0:47:36

and how it got there.

0:47:36

0:47:38

You know, I'm not omniscient.

0:47:39

0:47:42

Do you think you did
what you needed to do?

0:47:42

0:47:45

I did the best I could.

0:47:45

0:47:47

'It's the best defence money can
buy, and that's very expensive -

0:47:47

0:47:52

'for OJ Simpson,
an estimated 50,000 a day.'

0:47:52

0:47:57

OJ had money to spend

0:48:09

0:48:12

and a willingness to spend it
on his own defence.

0:48:12

0:48:17

This was the first for me.
Sui generis. One of a kind.

0:48:17

0:48:21

He'd been in jail
two or three days, tops.

0:48:24

0:48:27

The first thing he wanted to do
is to make sure

0:48:27

0:48:29

that we started marketing
and merchandising

0:48:29

0:48:32

and generating a lot of money.

0:48:32

0:48:34

Because OJ was not convicted
of any crime

0:48:44

0:48:47

and autographs was
his normal business...

0:48:47

0:48:50

..he was allowed to still
sign autographs in jail.

0:48:51

0:48:54

Rather than taking
a jersey into the jail

0:48:56

0:48:59

to be signed, he would
take a number in,

0:48:59

0:49:01

like this, he would sign the number,
and then the number would be put

0:49:01

0:49:05

onto a jersey like this.

0:49:05

0:49:07

Rather than being able
to take in a whole football,

0:49:07

0:49:09

he would take in a panel.

0:49:09

0:49:12

He would sign the panel,
then the panel would be

0:49:12

0:49:14

sent in to the company,
then you'd have a football.

0:49:14

0:49:18

I'm not sure what drove the market,
but it was driven.

0:49:20

0:49:25

It was nonstop.

0:49:26

0:49:28

There were times he'd sit there
and go through 2,500 cards

0:49:28

0:49:33

and then say, "OK, so
2,500 cards times 25."

0:49:33

0:49:38

He'd run the math.

0:49:38

0:49:40

And he said, "Not bad."

0:49:40

0:49:42

When he sat in jail, we did
three million dollars in autographs.

0:49:42

0:49:48

It just went and went and went.

0:49:50

0:49:53

There was no end.

0:49:53

0:49:56

Photos of he and Johnnie Cochran
that he and Johnnie signed -

0:49:56

0:50:00

that's probably the only item that
I did and I looked back and thought,

0:50:00

0:50:03

"Man, this sucks.
I can't believe we did this."

0:50:03

0:50:07

The Goldmans were screaming,

0:50:07

0:50:09

but you're innocent until convicted.

0:50:09

0:50:13

What was found on the glove
at Rockingham?

0:50:33

0:50:35

Simpson's blood, Nicole's blood
and Ron's blood.

0:50:35

0:50:39

That glove is now tied in
to three people

0:50:40

0:50:42

that can only intersect
when they're bleeding.

0:50:42

0:50:44

That might be a timeframe
that might be a little

0:50:44

0:50:47

difficult to put together
unless you are

0:50:47

0:50:50

killing two people
and cutting yourself.

0:50:50

0:50:53

Whoever wore that glove
killed those people?

0:50:53

0:50:56

Yes.

0:50:56

0:50:57

I'd like to show you
a pair of gloves.

0:50:57

0:50:59

Showing you People's 164A.

0:51:01

0:51:06

That is an Aris leather light glove

0:51:06

0:51:09

that was an exclusive glove
for Bloomingdale's.

0:51:09

0:51:12

And what is the size?

0:51:12

0:51:14

Size is extra large.

0:51:14

0:51:17

Is that a Bloomingdale's
credit card sales receipt?

0:51:18

0:51:21

-Yes.

-And is there a signature
on the credit card receipt?

0:51:21

0:51:24

-Yes.

-Can you read
that signature to us?

0:51:24

0:51:27

Nicole Brown.

0:51:27

0:51:29

It was later in the afternoon, and

0:51:32

0:51:35

the person who they had giving
the testimony regarding the glove...

0:51:35

0:51:38

Wait, may I try this on?

0:51:38

0:51:40

'..you could see where it was
leading up to.'

0:51:40

0:51:43

So, this is an extra large glove?

0:51:43

0:51:44

Yes.

0:51:44

0:51:46

Extra large is kind of small?

0:51:46

0:51:48

No, but they stretch.

0:51:48

0:51:50

'Obviously, it was too big.

0:51:51

0:51:53

'At 24 years old,
I could see this is a trick.'

0:51:55

0:51:58

Don't fall for it.

0:51:58

0:52:01

'We can see that that glove
is big on his hand.

0:52:01

0:52:04

'You don't have to do anything.'

0:52:06

0:52:09

That afternoon I got
a call from Marcia,

0:52:11

0:52:15

basically affirming
the game plan, "We're not

0:52:15

0:52:17

"trying the glove on, right?"

0:52:17

0:52:19

There's too much of a gamble here.
It's shrunk,

0:52:19

0:52:23

he's probably
been working out his hand.

0:52:23

0:52:26

Absolutely not.

0:52:26

0:52:28

I went over to him
and said, "Chris,

0:52:29

0:52:31

"you know you're a good ship,
but you've got the balls

0:52:31

0:52:34

"of a stud fieldmouse.

0:52:34

0:52:36

"That glove won't fit OJ,
and if you don't

0:52:36

0:52:38

"show the jury that,
be it the fact, I will."

0:52:38

0:52:41

Chris says, "I want to do it."

0:52:42

0:52:44

And I told him in no uncertain terms
why we should not be doing this,

0:52:44

0:52:49

and he said, "If we don't,
they will."

0:52:49

0:52:51

And I said, "Then let them.
And we can show why it was

0:52:51

0:52:54

"a bullshit experiment,
it would never work.

0:52:54

0:52:57

"Between the shrinkage
and the latex,

0:52:57

0:52:59

"it's never going to fit him
the same way. Don't do this.

0:52:59

0:53:02

"Don't do this."

0:53:02

0:53:04

It was the biggest fight
Chris and I ever had.

0:53:04

0:53:06

Darden, I think, felt,
"You know, I've been pushed

0:53:06

0:53:09

"around in this courtroom enough,

0:53:09

0:53:11

"I've been made to feel small."

0:53:11

0:53:13

You could see the disaster coming.

0:53:13

0:53:18

There's a camera to our right
watching everything.

0:53:21

0:53:26

Johnnie comes back
from side bar and says,

0:53:26

0:53:29

"OK, guys, they're going to
ask OJ to try on the gloves.

0:53:29

0:53:34

"I don't want anyone to react."

0:53:34

0:53:39

We've been rejoined by
all the members of our jury panel.

0:53:39

0:53:42

Mr Darden, do you have any further
questions of Mr Rubin?

0:53:42

0:53:44

Just a few, Your Honour.

0:53:44

0:53:46

Your Honour, at this time,
the People would ask

0:53:50

0:53:52

that Mr Simpson step forward
and try on the glove

0:53:52

0:53:56

recovered at Bundy as well as
the glove recovered at Rockingham.

0:53:56

0:54:00

He can do that seated there?

0:54:02

0:54:04

'You could hear a pin drop.'

0:54:04

0:54:07

OJ was initially seated,
putting on the first glove.

0:54:07

0:54:13

I'm handing Mr Simpson
the left glove from Rockingham.

0:54:13

0:54:17

And right when it was clear
it did not fit,

0:54:18

0:54:21

OJ goes into Naked Gun mode.

0:54:21

0:54:25

He stands up and shows his hand,
and that's when he's now, "OK."

0:54:26

0:54:32

The guy's an actor, for God's sakes.

0:54:39

0:54:42

He's playing to 50 million people.

0:54:42

0:54:44

Mr Simpson?

0:54:48

0:54:50

All right, records reflect
that Mr Simpson has both gloves.

0:54:52

0:54:57

What was he going to do?

0:54:57

0:54:59

Make a good-faith effort
with plastic over his hands?

0:54:59

0:55:03

All right, will you show that to
the jury, Mr Simpson, and the bench?

0:55:03

0:55:06

'The whole thing was
so wildly ill-conceived,

0:55:06

0:55:09

'so totally inappropriate,
so doomed to failure.'

0:55:09

0:55:14

The idea that Chris Darden
would do this!

0:55:14

0:55:18

Mr Darden, would you
wrap it up, please?

0:55:18

0:55:22

I looked at him like,
"I can't believe you did it.

0:55:22

0:55:26

"You let him play you.

0:55:26

0:55:28

"You are the weaker one.

0:55:29

0:55:32

"And you didn't have to be."

0:55:33

0:55:36

You just take the gloves,

0:55:37

0:55:39

you take both attorneys
and the deputy, and the suspect

0:55:39

0:55:44

and you go into chambers. And
you do it on the record in chambers.

0:55:44

0:55:48

You don't do it
with latex underneath.

0:55:48

0:55:52

My grandson couldn't have gotten

0:55:52

0:55:53

into those gloves
with latex underneath.

0:55:53

0:55:55

Did you observe the manner in which
Mr Simpson put the gloves on today?

0:55:56

0:55:59

-Yes, I did.

-You've seen people
put gloves on in the past.

0:55:59

0:56:02

Yes, I have.

0:56:02

0:56:03

Did he put the gloves on in a manner
consistent with what other...?

0:56:03

0:56:06

-Objection, Your Honour.

-Sustained. The jury observed

0:56:06

0:56:10

what happened.

0:56:10

0:56:13

It made the prosecution look silly.

0:56:13

0:56:15

Anything unusual about the way
Mr Simpson put the gloves on,

0:56:16

0:56:19

-based on your experience?

-Objection, Your Honour.

-Sustained.

0:56:19

0:56:23

I felt sorry for him,
because he looked weak.

0:56:24

0:56:29

I have nothing further.

0:56:29

0:56:31

This was THE definition
of the trial lawyer's mistake.

0:56:33

0:56:38

Don't ask a question
to which you don't know the answer.

0:56:38

0:56:43

He didn't know
whether that glove fit.

0:56:43

0:56:45

Chris honestly felt
that he would have

0:56:47

0:56:49

a dramatic courtroom moment
by demonstrating the gloves fit.

0:56:49

0:56:54

It was an intuitive move
on his part,

0:56:54

0:56:57

and it was a mistake.

0:56:57

0:56:59

Had OJ never put that glove on,
I would have assumed that it fit.

0:56:59

0:57:04

I saw how big it was.

0:57:04

0:57:06

'And that's when I just knew that,
you know, why is this guy here?

0:57:07

0:57:11

'He's ruining this case.'

0:57:11

0:57:13

Outside of Perry Mason,
what could be more dramatic

0:57:15

0:57:18

than OJ Simpson showing the jury
that the killer's gloves don't fit?

0:57:18

0:57:23

Prosecutorial attempts
at damage control

0:57:23

0:57:25

might not be able to undermine
the power of that image.

0:57:25

0:57:29

The funny thing about the glove,
he didn't want to put them on.

0:57:32

0:57:36

I said, "Look, if you're
worried about the gloves

0:57:36

0:57:38

"fitting or not fitting,
just don't take your arthritis

0:57:38

0:57:41

"medicine, no big deal."

0:57:41

0:57:43

And he said, "Mike, my hands
would hurt like hell."

0:57:43

0:57:47

And I said, "Why would
they hurt like hell?"

0:57:47

0:57:49

And he - and you could
just see the light

0:57:49

0:57:51

click, you know, just -
ah, hands would get swollen,

0:57:51

0:57:55

couldn't bend his knuckles.

0:57:55

0:57:57

So, he didn't take arthritis
medicine for, like, two weeks.

0:57:57

0:58:01

-Do you think that made a difference?

-Well, he couldn't bend his hands.

0:58:01

0:58:05

You tell me.

0:58:05

0:58:07

One day, a friend of OJ's,
Alan Austin, came up to me,

0:58:14

0:58:17

and he said,
"Answer a question for me.

0:58:17

0:58:21

"What would Mark Fuhrman
have to know

0:58:22

0:58:25

"before he placed the glove there?"

0:58:25

0:58:28

Well...I don't know.

0:58:30

0:58:33

He said, "He would have to know

0:58:35

0:58:37

"that Orenthal James Simpson,
a six-foot-two-and-a-half

0:58:37

0:58:40

"black guy living in
a white world, had no alibi.

0:58:40

0:58:44

"He was in no woman's bed,

0:58:47

0:58:49

"he was in no restaurant,

0:58:49

0:58:52

"he was on no airplane,
he had no alibi.

0:58:52

0:58:56

"So how could Mark Fuhrman place
that glove if he didn't know that?"

0:58:57

0:59:02

And I said,
"Are you telling me he's guilty?"

0:59:04

0:59:09

And Alan just nodded.

0:59:11

0:59:14

And the tears were
streaming down my face.

0:59:14

0:59:16

And, suddenly, I felt cuckolded,

0:59:16

0:59:21

because, I'm telling you,
if OJ had put

0:59:21

0:59:23

his face up to the glass
to me and said,

0:59:23

0:59:25

"Something happened, and I just
snapped, and I went crazy,"

0:59:25

0:59:32

I would've defended
and forgiven him.

0:59:32

0:59:35

When he put his face
next to the glass

0:59:37

0:59:39

and said, "I swear to God
I didn't do this,"

0:59:39

0:59:42

and then it suddenly
looked like he did,

0:59:42

0:59:45

I got angry, I felt wounded,
I felt betrayed.

0:59:45

0:59:49

I know it sounds naive,
I know it sounds stupid.

0:59:49

0:59:53

It just didn't occur to me
that he could do THAT.

0:59:53

0:59:56

-TAPE:

-'Dr Golden
dictating autopsy case

1:00:02

1:00:05

'94-05136, autopsy
on Nicole Brown Simpson.'

1:00:05

1:00:10

Having studied the crime scene...

1:00:12

1:00:15

..I believe that Nicole had come out
of the house expecting Ron Goldman.

1:00:17

1:00:22

She encountered OJ, then
she was quickly subdued.

1:00:26

1:00:29

There was evidence
of blunt force trauma

1:00:30

1:00:32

near the crown of her head,
possibly consistent,

1:00:32

1:00:35

per the testimony of
the coroner, with having

1:00:35

1:00:38

been struck with the butt end
of the knife.

1:00:38

1:00:41

'Scalp bruised, right parietal.'

1:00:41

1:00:44

I believe she went down.

1:00:44

1:00:46

Four stab wounds,
three deep, one shallow

1:00:49

1:00:51

were inflicted upon
the left side of her neck.

1:00:51

1:00:54

Her head was on
the first step above the lower

1:00:56

1:01:00

pavement level, where
the rest of her body was.

1:01:00

1:01:02

I believe that Ron Goldman
came upon the scene

1:01:05

1:01:07

after Nicole had been subdued.

1:01:07

1:01:10

As Ron came upon Nicole,
as he moved forward

1:01:10

1:01:13

to the fallen Nicole,
OJ grabbed Ron from behind

1:01:13

1:01:18

and probably had the knife
at his throat.

1:01:18

1:01:21

Simpson's left hand was perhaps
around Ron's chest,

1:01:22

1:01:26

and, in the course of
a short exchange, which could

1:01:26

1:01:29

have included some sort of taunting,
Simpson poked Ron in the right cheek

1:01:29

1:01:34

five times and then drew the
knife blade twice across his throat.

1:01:34

1:01:40

I suspect Ron, in an effort
to free himself

1:01:40

1:01:43

from Simpson's grasp,
went to the hand

1:01:43

1:01:45

that was controlling him,
Simpson's left hand,

1:01:45

1:01:48

grabbed it, pulled it
and probably in the process

1:01:48

1:01:51

wrenched the glove
from Simpson's hand,

1:01:51

1:01:53

hence the left-hand glove
being found in the foliage.

1:01:53

1:01:57

And then Ron turned
with his back

1:01:58

1:02:00

inside the security bars
at the foot of the stairs.

1:02:00

1:02:04

It was in effect a killing cage.

1:02:04

1:02:06

Ron had bars to his left,
bars behind him,

1:02:08

1:02:12

tree to his right,
stairwell coming down,

1:02:12

1:02:17

and he had a very strong,
powerful figure

1:02:17

1:02:20

with a very sharp knife
slashing at him.

1:02:20

1:02:25

Ron suffered defence wounds

1:02:25

1:02:27

to both of his hands,
deep defensive wounds,

1:02:27

1:02:29

so he's clearly trying
to parry the knife.

1:02:29

1:02:32

He suffered a number of stab wounds

1:02:32

1:02:35

as he's twisting and turning
in the scene.

1:02:35

1:02:38

At one point Simpson catches Ron,
with a...

1:02:38

1:02:43

it was kind of a sweeping,
stabbing motion to Ron's left flank.

1:02:43

1:02:47

And the knife blade
penetrates Ron's abdomen

1:02:47

1:02:50

and almost completely severs
his abdominal artery.

1:02:50

1:02:54

You've got about a minute to live
because of the massive bleed-out.

1:02:55

1:02:59

Blood is filling
Ron's abdominal cavity,

1:02:59

1:03:03

blood is pouring out of
the wound to Ron's left flank,

1:03:03

1:03:06

soaking the left pants leg of Ron.

1:03:06

1:03:10

And, ultimately,
after a matter of some seconds,

1:03:10

1:03:12

hard to determine how many,
I believe

1:03:12

1:03:14

Ron simply sank to the ground
in a seated position

1:03:14

1:03:17

with his back against
the upright bars.

1:03:17

1:03:20

As we know from the evidence, there
was movement between the two bodies.

1:03:21

1:03:25

I suspect Simpson went
back to Nicole's body,

1:03:25

1:03:28

lifted her head by grabbing
her blonde head hair

1:03:28

1:03:32

and causing the massive incise wound
across her neck...

1:03:32

1:03:36

..in the process severing just about
everything in her neck

1:03:38

1:03:41

and putting a quarter-inch nick
in her C3 vertebrae.

1:03:41

1:03:45

'This is a fatal sharp
force injury.'

1:03:46

1:03:50

Simpson moves back to Ron Goldman,

1:03:50

1:03:52

grabs his shirt,
so it would be above Ron's

1:03:52

1:03:55

right shoulder,
transferring blood, head hairs,

1:03:55

1:03:58

from Nicole to Ron's shirt,
twists Ron's body to the side,

1:03:58

1:04:02

and we know there were four deep

1:04:02

1:04:04

intersecting knife wounds
to the left side of Ron's neck.

1:04:04

1:04:09

In my opinion,
overkill with regard to Ron,

1:04:09

1:04:13

overkill with regard to Nicole.

1:04:13

1:04:15

Simpson at this point stepped back,
stepped in the blood that's pumping

1:04:15

1:04:20

from Nicole, and in
what appears to be a very

1:04:20

1:04:24

even stride, goes up the steps
and out of the crime scene,

1:04:24

1:04:28

towards the back of the house,

1:04:28

1:04:29

towards the alley, where the Bronco
had to have been parked.

1:04:29

1:04:33

DOG BARKS

1:04:36

1:04:39

Listen...

1:04:43

1:04:45

I just flat out, categorically

1:04:45

1:04:50

deny the fact that he could do that.

1:04:50

1:04:53

Period.

1:04:55

1:04:56

I came up from court one day

1:05:14

1:05:17

and Bill said, "I've got
some bad news." More? Again?

1:05:17

1:05:22

He said, "There are some tapes."

1:05:22

1:05:24

What if it could be proved
that Detective Mark Fuhrman

1:05:28

1:05:30

lied on the witness stand when he
denied ever using the word "nigger"?

1:05:30

1:05:36

Oh, no.

1:05:36

1:05:38

Both sides want to get their hands
on the 12 hours of taped interviews

1:05:38

1:05:42

Fuhrman gave screenwriter
Laura Hart McKinny

1:05:42

1:05:45

as background for her fictional
script on LA police.

1:05:45

1:05:49

On the tapes, Fuhrman used
racial epithets and talked

1:05:49

1:05:51

of framing people.

1:05:51

1:05:54

What the fuck, dude?

1:05:54

1:05:55

We were not aware of the tapes.

1:05:57

1:06:00

-Should he have told you about them?

-We were not aware of the tapes.

1:06:00

1:06:03

It was pennies from heaven.
We'd been given a gift.

1:06:03

1:06:08

Miss Drummond?

1:06:13

1:06:15

Listening to that,
I just felt like somebody

1:06:28

1:06:32

opened up a drainpipe
and just rolled it over my body.

1:06:32

1:06:35

Things that were said resonated

1:06:52

1:06:57

with things I had heard
for 30 years or more

1:06:57

1:07:01

about the way that cops think...

1:07:01

1:07:03

..and act.

1:07:05

1:07:06

When you hear those things...

1:07:15

1:07:18

..some of the characters
in that screenplay

1:07:21

1:07:24

I wrapped around some of
the people that I knew

1:07:24

1:07:27

on LAPD and other departments.

1:07:27

1:07:30

I can remember where I heard them,

1:07:30

1:07:34

I can remember some who said them,

1:07:34

1:07:39

and then there's a little...

1:07:39

1:07:42

..exaggeration in it.

1:07:43

1:07:45

Fuhrman may say he was
just fictionalising...

1:07:54

1:07:58

..but his words rang true.

1:07:59

1:08:03

Does that mean that he planted
a glove? No, it doesn't.

1:08:12

1:08:14

It doesn't even necessarily mean
that he's an authentic racist.

1:08:14

1:08:18

But it means he's prepared
to act like one.

1:08:20

1:08:22

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

1:08:24

1:08:25

And there's nothing
that you can take back,

1:08:27

1:08:30

there's not, like, a,
"Oh, gee, gosh, I'm sorry."

1:08:30

1:08:34

We came to this court seven months
ago expecting a fair trial.

1:08:44

1:08:49

My son had a right to it,

1:08:49

1:08:52

we as a family had a right to it,

1:08:52

1:08:54

Nicole and her family
had a right to it.

1:08:54

1:08:57

Instead, we get this crap spewed in
front of the cameras for two hours.

1:08:58

1:09:05

For what purpose? I'd love to know
what the judge had in mind.

1:09:05

1:09:10

This is now the Fuhrman trial.
It's not the trial of OJ Simpson,

1:09:10

1:09:15

who is accused of murdering
my son and Nicole.

1:09:15

1:09:19

-CHANTING:

-We want justice!
We want justice!

1:09:19

1:09:24

In all their ugliness,
the tapes have now

1:09:26

1:09:29

been made public,
but Judge Lance Ito

1:09:29

1:09:31

has yet to decide if the jury
will hear what others already have.

1:09:31

1:09:35

The tapes shall be released.

1:09:35

1:09:37

We want them now.

1:09:37

1:09:39

We want justice now.

1:09:39

1:09:41

The judge was on the fence
as to whether or not

1:09:42

1:09:44

he was going to let
certain stuff come in.

1:09:44

1:09:48

That required people
speaking out to say,

1:09:48

1:09:51

"This is not something
you should be hiding from the jury."

1:09:51

1:09:55

We know that if you can
railroad OJ Simpson

1:09:55

1:09:57

with his millions of dollars
and his dream team

1:09:57

1:10:02

of legal experts,
we know what you can do

1:10:02

1:10:05

to the average African American
and other

1:10:05

1:10:07

decent citizens in this country.

1:10:07

1:10:09

It was bigger than OJ Simpson.

1:10:11

1:10:14

Something larger than him
is at stake.

1:10:16

1:10:19

-CHANTING:

-Release the tapes!
Release the tapes!

1:10:20

1:10:23

OJ Simpson became
a symbol of that decade,

1:10:25

1:10:29

of that time, of that response to

1:10:29

1:10:34

"Has the mentality
of America changed

1:10:34

1:10:40

"in the civil rights struggle...

1:10:40

1:10:42

"..or is it business as usual?"

1:10:44

1:10:47

CHANTING

1:10:47

1:10:50

For me, as a progressive
Christian, a Democrat,

1:10:52

1:10:59

I'm going, like, "When are we
going to go back to the evidence?"

1:10:59

1:11:02

You would find yourself in a room
of ministers and community leaders,

1:11:04

1:11:09

and the conversation
inevitably would go back to OJ

1:11:09

1:11:13

and how OJ was being mistreated.

1:11:13

1:11:16

Justice be done in the courtroom,
we pray, yes!

1:11:16

1:11:20

We are talking about justice!

1:11:22

1:11:24

'Instead of getting in
and saying, "Free OJ,"'

1:11:24

1:11:28

as if he was a political prisoner,

1:11:28

1:11:30

it, for me, was,
"Let me just get quiet.

1:11:30

1:11:33

"Let me sit there and say nothing."

1:11:33

1:11:36

-CHANTING:

-Free OJ! Free OJ!

1:11:36

1:11:38

I really do believe privately
a lot of African American

1:11:38

1:11:41

leaders felt the same.

1:11:41

1:11:43

If this case gets
covered up under the rug,

1:11:43

1:11:46

you will never trust
the criminal justice system again.

1:11:46

1:11:49

-INTERVIEWER:

-You turned OJ Simpson
into a civil rights cause.

1:11:51

1:11:55

Do you at all regret that?

1:11:57

1:11:58

Absolutely not.

1:11:58

1:12:00

OJ Simpson was a vessel.

1:12:00

1:12:03

He was merely a tool that allowed

1:12:03

1:12:07

something to come out
and be exposed.

1:12:07

1:12:10

So you were using OJ Simpson
for your own cause?

1:12:10

1:12:13

I was using OJ Simpson for OUR
cause. For black people's cause.

1:12:13

1:12:17

There was a realness to the people
who were responding to

1:12:24

1:12:26

the Fuhrman tapes outside
the courtroom.

1:12:26

1:12:28

What was going on
inside the courtroom

1:12:28

1:12:30

was manipulation to the extreme.

1:12:30

1:12:33

This is a blockbuster.
This is a bombshell.

1:12:33

1:12:36

This is perhaps the biggest thing

1:12:36

1:12:38

that's happened
in any case in this country

1:12:38

1:12:40

in this decade, and they know it.
They've got to face up to it!

1:12:40

1:12:43

No-one planted any evidence
at any time.

1:12:43

1:12:46

There has been no false statement
made about where

1:12:46

1:12:49

that evidence was found,
the analysis of the evidence

1:12:49

1:12:51

or its results.

1:12:51

1:12:53

And the defence wants to
squirm away from that fact

1:12:53

1:12:55

by playing the race card.

1:12:55

1:12:56

This isn't about any race card.
This is about credibility card.

1:12:56

1:12:59

This is about perjury.

1:12:59

1:13:01

The whole case got forgotten.

1:13:01

1:13:03

It was all about Fuhrman now,
it was all about racial injustice.

1:13:03

1:13:07

Occasionally, these cartoonists come
up with something that's edifying.

1:13:07

1:13:11

It's a little child,
speaking to his mother,

1:13:11

1:13:14

watching television, who says,

1:13:14

1:13:16

"What's the forbidden N word
they keep talking about, Mommy?"

1:13:16

1:13:19

She said, "Nicole."

1:13:19

1:13:21

OJ Simpson's defence team, stunned
by Judge Ito's ruling last night

1:13:25

1:13:29

that only two excerpts
of the inflammatory

1:13:29

1:13:32

Fuhrman tapes,
filled with racial slurs,

1:13:32

1:13:34

may be presented to the jury.

1:13:34

1:13:36

We think this jury is much smarter

1:13:36

1:13:38

than this judge
gives them credit for.

1:13:38

1:13:41

What he let in was enough.

1:13:42

1:13:44

Then we have two excerpts,
Your Honour,

1:13:45

1:13:47

we would like to play
at this point, if we could.

1:13:47

1:13:49

It's a slap.

1:13:59

1:14:00

It's a slap
every time you hear it.

1:14:00

1:14:03

"We have no niggers where I grew
up." Do you recall him saying that?

1:14:04

1:14:07

Yes.

1:14:07

1:14:08

To hear anybody speak on race
like that is not OK with me.

1:14:10

1:14:14

When Officer Fuhrman
used the word "nigger,"

1:14:14

1:14:16

it was not light-hearted,
it was something that

1:14:16

1:14:20

he would use in normal conversation.

1:14:20

1:14:23

Devastating. I believe those tapes
never should have been allowed in.

1:14:24

1:14:28

What is the nexus between
the tapes and the murder?

1:14:28

1:14:30

What does it have to do
with the evidence?

1:14:30

1:14:32

What proof is there
that any evidence was planted?

1:14:32

1:14:36

Well, it definitely became
believable that he was capable.

1:14:36

1:14:39

And I didn't have trust
in him any more.

1:14:39

1:14:43

'He was using it in a demeaning,
derogatory fashion.'

1:14:43

1:14:48

-INTERVIEWER:

-You're saying
what's on those tapes

1:14:51

1:14:54

is not reflective of your attitudes
or your experiences?

1:14:54

1:14:57

I don't know how you feel or see me,
but I can tell you this -

1:14:57

1:15:00

you would be shocked
if you saw me in the field.

1:15:00

1:15:05

I was so fair...

1:15:05

1:15:07

..beyond...beyond all scope
of what you had to be.

1:15:09

1:15:15

Fighting?

1:15:15

1:15:16

I didn't use Tasers.

1:15:16

1:15:19

I didn't use sticks.

1:15:19

1:15:21

When I fought a suspect,
I fought straight up.

1:15:21

1:15:24

I was fair on the street.

1:15:24

1:15:27

There was a time
that I was pretty violent.

1:15:31

1:15:34

But that was...

1:15:37

1:15:40

..long before I was
in the police department.

1:15:42

1:15:44

All right, Mr Uelmen,
I take it at this point

1:15:47

1:15:48

-you wish to recall Detective
Fuhrman?

-Yes, Your Honour.

1:15:48

1:15:52

'I didn't want to look at him.
He made me sick.

1:15:54

1:15:57

'You have been a liar throughout.'

1:15:57

1:16:02

And the only reason
I know that you didn't

1:16:02

1:16:04

plant the evidence
is because you couldn't have.

1:16:04

1:16:07

Otherwise, I'm with them.

1:16:07

1:16:09

Detective Fuhrman, was the testimony

1:16:09

1:16:12

that you gave
at the preliminary hearing

1:16:12

1:16:15

in this case completely truthful?

1:16:15

1:16:17

I wish to assert
my Fifth Amendment privilege.

1:16:19

1:16:22

'And one of the most shocking
moments was when he took the Fifth.'

1:16:23

1:16:27

You don't see police officers
take the Fifth.

1:16:27

1:16:29

Have you ever falsified
a police report?

1:16:29

1:16:33

I wish to assert
my Fifth Amendment privilege.

1:16:35

1:16:38

Any kind of questioning
is going to help to convict

1:16:38

1:16:41

him one way or another,
so he had to take the Fifth

1:16:41

1:16:43

to avoid incriminating himself.

1:16:43

1:16:45

A lot of people don't understand
about the Fifth.

1:16:45

1:16:48

If you answer one question,
you answer them all.

1:16:48

1:16:51

I can't let the defence
attorney just run with me.

1:16:51

1:16:56

'I had to plead the Fifth.'

1:16:56

1:16:58

Is it your intention to assert your

1:16:58

1:17:00

Fifth Amendment privilege
with respect to all

1:17:00

1:17:02

questions that I ask you?

1:17:02

1:17:04

Yes.

1:17:04

1:17:06

-Could I have a moment?

-Certainly.

1:17:06

1:17:09

That's the main question. I mean,
he didn't ask the main question.

1:17:09

1:17:14

'"Did you plant the glove?"'

1:17:14

1:17:16

That was the most important one.

1:17:16

1:17:18

It didn't matter.
He wasn't going to answer.

1:17:18

1:17:21

-Allow me one other question, Your
Honour.

-What was that, Mr Uelmen?

1:17:32

1:17:35

Detective Fuhrman, did you plant

1:17:35

1:17:37

or manufacture any evidence
in this case?

1:17:37

1:17:41

"Hell, no, I don't plant evidence."
That's your response.

1:17:41

1:17:45

And you get incensed.

1:17:45

1:17:46

"LAPD cops don't plant evidence. I
made a damn fool of myself by using

1:17:46

1:17:50

"a racial epithet. I never
should have done that."

1:17:50

1:17:54

You lay it out, because you've got
nothing else to lose.

1:17:54

1:17:57

I assert my Fifth Amendment
privilege.

1:17:59

1:18:01

He didn't do that. Why in hell
wouldn't you do that?

1:18:03

1:18:07

'For you, it's a documentary.
For me, it's the end of my life.'

1:18:11

1:18:14

Now I'm going to tell you a story.

1:18:17

1:18:19

In 1989...

1:18:20

1:18:25

I was married, I had a house,

1:18:25

1:18:28

had a daughter that was born in '91,

1:18:28

1:18:31

a son that was born in '93.

1:18:31

1:18:34

Had this group of friends,

1:18:34

1:18:37

unbelievable friends.

1:18:37

1:18:40

Every one of them
was different than me, though.

1:18:40

1:18:43

They all came from intact families,

1:18:43

1:18:45

fathers, houses they still go back
to, rooms that they still had,

1:18:45

1:18:51

but they welcomed me into this
group. I thought I had it made.

1:18:51

1:18:55

I finally was really happy
for the first time in my life.

1:18:55

1:19:00

Then I answered a phone.

1:19:00

1:19:02

'I call upon the public to remember
that Mark Fuhrman is not the LAPD.'

1:19:04

1:19:09

The vast majority of
the men and women at the LAPD

1:19:09

1:19:12

are hard-working, honest people.

1:19:12

1:19:14

They're husbands, they're wives,
they're sons, they're daughters.

1:19:14

1:19:17

They have mortgages. They have kids
they want to get through school.

1:19:17

1:19:20

They work two and three jobs,
just like I did

1:19:20

1:19:22

as a young officer
in the '60s and '70s.

1:19:22

1:19:25

And they want to divorce themselves

1:19:27

1:19:29

from what they've heard
these past few weeks.

1:19:29

1:19:32

I believe the police force
did their job

1:19:34

1:19:37

and did it correctly,
and I cannot see any

1:19:37

1:19:41

way that the framing of OJ
is something that is valid.

1:19:41

1:19:46

All the evidence points back
to the police department,

1:19:46

1:19:48

and it looks like
a major set-up to me.

1:19:48

1:19:51

I think he's innocent. And not just
because I want him to be,

1:19:51

1:19:54

it's just based upon the facts
that have been given.

1:19:54

1:19:58

I have found most people
to be vehemently

1:19:58

1:20:02

convinced that OJ Simpson
is guilty of this double murder.

1:20:02

1:20:05

Well, I believe that he was set up.
And he's a black man in America,

1:20:05

1:20:09

and black men in America
have a hard time getting justice.

1:20:09

1:20:13

OJ was known as
a very good black man

1:20:40

1:20:44

who had appeal
across the board racially.

1:20:44

1:20:47

Whether OJ's guilty or not
is maybe why you're here.

1:20:48

1:20:52

But my theory's
that people who live out in Iowa

1:20:52

1:20:54

or out in farmland
who've never interacted with us

1:20:54

1:20:57

will suddenly have
a negative opinion of us,

1:20:57

1:21:00

the black man's image
and the beating that it's taken

1:21:00

1:21:04

after we've worked so hard to show
that we're not all criminals.

1:21:04

1:21:08

TV PRESENTER: 'The long-awaited
closing arguments

1:21:16

1:21:19

'in the OJ Simpson trial.'

1:21:19

1:21:21

This is the last great hurdle
for the lawyers

1:21:21

1:21:23

as they try to convince the jury
that their version

1:21:23

1:21:26

of events is the right one.

1:21:26

1:21:27

-Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

-ALL:

-Good morning.

1:21:28

1:21:32

Finally.

1:21:32

1:21:33

I feel like it's been forever since
I've talked to you. It kind of has.

1:21:33

1:21:36

I got up, and I spoke to them.

1:21:36

1:21:38

'I gave my argument.'

1:21:38

1:21:41

In the course of presenting
all of this evidence,

1:21:41

1:21:43

some evidence
has been presented to you

1:21:43

1:21:45

that really is not relevant
to answer the question

1:21:45

1:21:47

of who murdered Ron Goldman
and Nicole Brown.

1:21:47

1:21:51

And it's up to you, the jury,
to weed out the distractions,

1:21:51

1:21:55

weed out the sideshows
and determine what evidence

1:21:55

1:21:58

is it that really helps me
answer this question.

1:21:58

1:22:01

'I thought, "They're listening
with half an ear."'

1:22:02

1:22:06

From 9:36 until 10:54...

1:22:08

1:22:12

..the defendant's whereabouts
were unaccounted for.

1:22:13

1:22:17

At 10:43, Allan Park,
the limo driver,

1:22:17

1:22:21

saw a person
approximately six feet tall,

1:22:21

1:22:26

200lbs, African American,

1:22:26

1:22:29

wearing all dark clothing
walking up the driveway.

1:22:29

1:22:34

Stone faced.

1:22:36

1:22:38

'Marcia Clark...'

1:22:40

1:22:42

You are truly a marvellous jury,

1:22:46

1:22:48

perhaps the most patient
and healthy jury we've ever seen.

1:22:48

1:22:53

When Johnnie was up there,

1:22:53

1:22:54

they were, "Oh, we're
there, we are there."

1:22:54

1:22:58

Like the defining moment
in this trial,

1:22:58

1:23:01

the day Mr Darden
asked Mr Simpson to try on

1:23:01

1:23:04

those gloves and the gloves
didn't fit, remember these words.

1:23:04

1:23:08

It was the weekend after
the glove demonstration,

1:23:08

1:23:11

and we were talking, and, you know,
Jerry was on the speakerphone.

1:23:11

1:23:15

He says, "Hey guys, hey, hey, hey.
I got... I got a phrase."

1:23:15

1:23:19

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

1:23:19

1:23:22

The room then erupted.
High-fiving. "Hey, hey, hey!"

1:23:24

1:23:30

What everybody remembers
about Johnnie Cochran's

1:23:30

1:23:33

summation is, "If it doesn't fit,
you must acquit,"

1:23:33

1:23:36

which was cute and fine, but it
wasn't the heart of the summation.

1:23:36

1:23:40

The heart of the summation
was, "Whose side are you on?"

1:23:40

1:23:44

When you go back in the jury room,

1:23:44

1:23:47

some of you may want to say
that, "Well, gee, you know...

1:23:47

1:23:51

"..boys will be boys,
this is just like police talk,

1:23:52

1:23:57

"this is the way they talk."

1:23:57

1:23:59

That's not acceptable. That's
the consciousness of this community.

1:23:59

1:24:03

If you adopt that attitude,
that's why we have this.

1:24:03

1:24:08

There's no more powerful
a narrative...

1:24:08

1:24:13

..in American society
than that of race.

1:24:14

1:24:18

A racist is somebody
who has power over you,

1:24:18

1:24:22

who can do something to you.

1:24:22

1:24:25

A police officer in the street,
a patrol officer,

1:24:25

1:24:28

is the single most powerful figure
in the criminal justice system.

1:24:28

1:24:33

He can take your life.

1:24:33

1:24:35

And that's why, that's why
this has to be rooted out.

1:24:35

1:24:39

He was magical to watch in court.

1:24:39

1:24:42

Just magical.

1:24:42

1:24:44

Stop this cover up!

1:24:44

1:24:46

Stop this cover up.

1:24:46

1:24:49

If you don't stop it, then who?

1:24:49

1:24:52

Do you think the police
department's going to stop it?

1:24:52

1:24:54

Do you think the DA's office
is going to stop it?

1:24:54

1:24:56

Do you think we can stop it
by ourselves?

1:24:56

1:24:59

It has to be stopped by you.

1:24:59

1:25:01

It offended me because
he was using a very serious,

1:25:03

1:25:06

for-real issue,
racial injustice, in defence

1:25:06

1:25:10

of a man who wanted nothing to do
with the black community.

1:25:10

1:25:15

..Vannatter, with his big lies,
and then we have

1:25:15

1:25:17

Fuhrman come right on the heels,
and these

1:25:17

1:25:20

two twin devils of deception,

1:25:20

1:25:24

it's part of a culture
of getting away with things.

1:25:24

1:25:28

It's part of a culture
of looking the other way.

1:25:28

1:25:31

"If we determine the rules
as we go along,

1:25:31

1:25:34

"nobody's going to question us.

1:25:34

1:25:36

"We're the LAPD."

1:25:36

1:25:38

He and that team were willing
to go anywhere that they could

1:25:38

1:25:45

to get the killer off.

1:25:45

1:25:48

'It's just not honourable.
It's not right.'

1:25:48

1:25:52

Officer Fuhrman went on to say

1:25:52

1:25:55

that he would like nothing more

1:25:55

1:25:57

than to see all niggers
gathered together and killed.

1:25:57

1:26:04

He said something about
burning them or bombing them.

1:26:04

1:26:09

There was another man
who had those same views.

1:26:09

1:26:16

People didn't care.

1:26:16

1:26:18

People said, "He's just crazy,
he's just a half-baked painter."

1:26:18

1:26:22

They didn't do anything about it.

1:26:24

1:26:26

This man, this scourge
became one of the worst

1:26:26

1:26:30

people in the history of
this world, Adolf Hitler.

1:26:30

1:26:32

The word "Hitler" had not been
in any of the prior drafts.

1:26:34

1:26:39

People didn't care
and didn't try to stop him.

1:26:39

1:26:42

He had the power over his racism
and his anti-religions.

1:26:42

1:26:46

And nobody wanted to stop him,
and it ended up in World War II.

1:26:46

1:26:52

I found his closing arguments
to be irresponsible.

1:26:52

1:26:56

Thank you very, very much.

1:26:56

1:26:58

I appreciate your attention.

1:26:58

1:27:00

We have seen a man who perhaps is

1:27:02

1:27:05

the worst kind of racist himself,

1:27:05

1:27:09

someone who shoves racism
in front of everything,

1:27:09

1:27:14

someone who compares a person
who speaks racist comments

1:27:14

1:27:20

to Hitler!

1:27:20

1:27:22

This man is a disgrace
to human beings.

1:27:23

1:27:26

-That's...

-No.

1:27:26

1:27:28

He is one of the most
disgusting human beings

1:27:31

1:27:33

I have ever had to listen to
in my life.

1:27:33

1:27:37

He suggests because of racism we
should put aside all other thought,

1:27:39

1:27:45

all other reason and
set his murdering client free.

1:27:45

1:27:50

He's a sick man

1:27:50

1:27:52

and he ought to be put away.

1:27:52

1:27:54

Johnnie pushed.

1:28:02

1:28:04

I may have used a different analogy,
but I can't criticise what he did.

1:28:04

1:28:08

Did you go too far
with the Hitler analogy?

1:28:08

1:28:11

Some people are offended by that.

1:28:11

1:28:13

Excuse us, excuse us. Excuse us.

1:28:13

1:28:16

Could you answer it for us, Johnnie?

1:28:16

1:28:17

Yes.

1:28:22

1:28:23

The playing of
the race card as he did,

1:28:23

1:28:26

in all respects,
insinuations that were made...

1:28:26

1:28:31

..impacted how I felt about Johnnie.

1:28:33

1:28:36

Do you owe an apology
to Fred Goldman?

1:28:36

1:28:38

He owes an apology to me.

1:28:38

1:28:40

-CARL DOUGLAS:

-I am so tired
of the unfair...

1:28:42

1:28:45

suggestion that Johnnie Cochran

1:28:45

1:28:49

played the race card.

1:28:49

1:28:51

We played the credibility card.

1:28:51

1:28:54

We played the evidence card, man.

1:28:55

1:28:59

You have to look at
the evidence in a case.

1:28:59

1:29:01

And who in America can deny the fact

1:29:01

1:29:04

that Mark Fuhrman
is a genocidal racist?

1:29:04

1:29:06

He's their witness,
he's in the middle of this case,

1:29:06

1:29:09

so race has to be an issue.

1:29:09

1:29:10

It would have been contrary to our
oath as advocates to ignore race

1:29:10

1:29:18

and to not exploit it,
given the circumstances

1:29:18

1:29:21

and the context of this case
in this city and in this time.

1:29:21

1:29:27

The attorneys are telling
my brother's story.

1:29:27

1:29:32

And it's very shocking that

1:29:32

1:29:35

once Johnnie gets up
and starts telling what

1:29:35

1:29:38

we feel happens, that this
has rocked somebody's world.

1:29:38

1:29:44

I think it's time
for everybody to wake up

1:29:44

1:29:47

and realise that we are
in a for-real world

1:29:47

1:29:51

and we have dealt with
racism all our lives.

1:29:51

1:29:55

Every single day.

1:29:55

1:29:57

It's hard, it's really hard.
This guy's on trial for his life.

1:29:59

1:30:04

Not one word
that Johnnie Cochran said

1:30:04

1:30:07

was objected to by the prosecution,

1:30:07

1:30:12

unlawful under
the rules of evidence.

1:30:12

1:30:15

So, what's the problem?

1:30:15

1:30:17

On the other hand, really?

1:30:17

1:30:21

OJ Simpson as civil rights victim?

1:30:21

1:30:24

Hero?

1:30:24

1:30:26

It was disgusting. It was appalling.

1:30:26

1:30:28

What was your feeling
when Mr Cochran

1:30:28

1:30:30

compared Mr Fuhrman
to Adolf Hitler?

1:30:30

1:30:33

Your personal feeling, sir?

1:30:34

1:30:36

I'll address that
after the jury verdict.

1:30:36

1:30:38

TV PRESENTER: 'One month
after the murders,

1:30:53

1:30:56

'in July last year, 63% of whites
thought Simpson was guilty,

1:30:56

1:30:59

'65% of blacks
thought he was innocent.

1:30:59

1:31:03

'And now, more than a year later,
with all of the evidence

1:31:03

1:31:05

'having been laid out,
77% of whites think Simpson

1:31:05

1:31:08

'is guilty and 72% of blacks
believe he is innocent.

1:31:08

1:31:13

'Blacks and whites are
actually farther apart.'

1:31:13

1:31:16

-TV PRESENTER:

-'It's not even
the trial of the century any more.

1:31:20

1:31:22

'Suddenly, the case of
The People Versus OJ Simpson

1:31:22

1:31:25

'has become the trial
of Los Angeles.'

1:31:25

1:31:29

Five-part series and winner of the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of OJ Simpson.

In January 1995, the crime of the century gave way to the trial of the century. It would be like nothing before it, nor anything that's come since, and reshape the landscape of the media, and, truly, American culture along the way. Over the better part of ten months, there would be dozens of dramatic twists and turns, revelations and surprises, accusations and betrayals. The recollections of so many of the case's protagonists make for section after section of riveting film, all bringing back to life a trial that somehow evolved into a phenomenon that left the brutal murders of two people deep in forgotten shadows.

Nothing, though, proved larger than the context - of everything that came before in the Los Angeles that OJ Simpson never knew. And in the trial's closing arguments, the dividing line of race - in Los Angeles, and America - was never starker.